Baba Yaga is a character drawn from mostly Eastern Slavic folk tradition – a woman with a rapacious appetite for human beings, especially children; in...
Arístides Vargas' La Razón Blindada is a powerful story of friendship inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote and Kafka's The Truth about Sancho Panza. Mor...
I have no idea why I have never before seen Ghosts; I’ve seen at least one production of most of Ibsen’s other plays. Coming to this tragedy for the v...
Five East Asian actors “whiting up” to play posh, dago-hating Brits – it could be a biting, thought-provoking satire on racial stereotypes. The team b...
The adaptation of Hamlet by Teatro de Los Andes is sublime, visually arresting and poignant. At one hour and twenty minutes it is a fleeting, yet very...
As opera season opens at the Canadian Opera Company, and faithful Torontonians flock by the dozens to the opening night of La Bohème, my eye is caught...
There is something irresistible about the title of this play – it embodies the core of the Berthold Brecht’s anti-Nazi views and his perception of Hit...
Die Fledermaus, one of the world’s most popular comic operetta’s, gets a wonderful revisionist make over under the direction of Christopher Alden and ...
A little bit of context helps to appreciate the impact of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. It began as a TV drama in 1970s Sweden where it was...
